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The album of works by Zbigniew Szczepanek, depicting 41 castles in northern Poland, contains more than 200 water colours, gouaches, pastels and drawings executed in 1999-2003. The warm hues, reader-friendly poetic and excellent technical level of the publication render it particularly attractive. The elegant album, in hard cover and a decorative box, includes an Englishand German-language translation and a map of northern Poland with likenesses of the portrayed castles. The album ends with notes concerning the illustrations (also translated), offering data about the technique, material, and size of the compositions, as well as describing the presented fragment of a given castle and, in the case of reconstruction, the foundation for its realisation. This indubitably interesting and well-composed album is the first in a planned three-volume series about the castles of Poland. The publishers – Tower Press – ensured a meticulous edition.